ACK/Cmnt: [Unstable][PATCH 0/2] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Clean up linux-bpf-dev packaging

Agathe Porte agathe.porte at canonical.com
Tue Dec 10 13:33:55 UTC 2024


2024-12-05 15:33 CET, Juerg Haefliger:
> The linux-bpf-dev package provides vmlinux.h which is generated from vmlinux using the
> in-tree bpftool utility. Currently, we build bpftool after the kernel so need to copy
> vmlinux around which is ugly. Fix that by building the tool before the kernel.
> 
> Note that the whole concept of the linux-bpf-dev package still remains broken as outlined
> in the commit message of patch 2.
> 
> Juerg Haefliger (2):
>   UBUNTU: [Packaging] linux-bpf-dev: Restructure packaging
>   UBUNTU: [Packaging] linux-bpf-dev: Skip packaging for additional
>     kernel flavors
> 
>  debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Agathe Porte <agathe.porte at canonical.com>

Maybe I am missing some context, but what prevents us to make
linux-bpf-dev a flavored package?



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